Response to Podcast #2

I listened to the podcast longest shortest time and their segment "Mama don't understand". In this segment they ,, the matter of race, how it is perceived, especially from the viewpoints of biracial children. It's starts off with a mother talking about her daughter who is half Indian and half white, and talks about how she struggles with finding acceptance with not only her two cultures, but with her skin color as well. She talks about how her family perceives it as well, all Indian, and how they favor fair skin and call it beautiful, and it makes her worried on how it will affect her child. They then interviewed another girl, who is half black and half white. She talks about being raised by her single mother, who is white, and what she faced trying to find her identity. She even wrote a rap song when she was 8 to her mother, talking about how her mother doesn't understand "the black thing". This story resonated with me, because I had faced something rather similar in my youth. I often felt that my own father didn't understand what it was like to be a different race, and though he tried to assure me that I was American, a lot of society is still very ignorant just because of the way I look...